City Council Meeting
March 17, 2015
City Manager Report
Presented by Megan Antrim
City Finance Director
Baines Park Project Update
• Core structure in place
• Grading work being
done to provide level
area
• Building small retaining
wall on north end of
project
• Anticipate completion
within week
Kokernot Park Update
• Once Baines park swing project is complete
team will migrate over to Kokernot
• Addressing the build of the ADA compatible
swing first. Weather is improving which will
allow for the concrete pour
• Will follow the swing project with the new
Toddler playset that was acquired through the
Grant received by the Big Bend Parks Group
Gas Company Update
• City of Alpine 2015 DIMP Projects
• Alpine:
–
–
–
–
–
–
(Gray Addition Project)
Ted and Covey
Andy and Alley
Gray and Tom Lackey
W. Ave A. and N. 13th St.
New Services
• Ft. Davis:
– (Woodward St. and Madrone St. Project)
– (Murphy St. Project)
– New Services
Sewer Plant Update
TCEQ Enforcement Action
• Negotiated pricing on Dewatering Roll-off
• Negotiated pricing on final wiring for aerator
installation
• Making progress on reduction of sludge in old
Racetrack – working around the precipitation
schedule
• City Manager and Director of Utilities working
with TCEQ enforcement group this past week
on new order that is forthcoming
Financial Readout
Fund
Total Revenue
Total Expense
Net Income
1
Government Fund
$2,176,058
$1,367,183
$808,875
4
Water/Sewer/Sanitation
$1,561,808
$1,455,882
$105,926
5
Airport
$251,080
$234,532
$16,548
8
Gas
$1,138,661
$603,019
$535,642
Total for City
6
Hotel Occupancy Tax
$1,466,991
$212,570
$109,749
$102,821
Financial Readout (2)
• Early year Ad Valorem tax revenues and the Gas company
revenues coming in over the last three months represent
the strength of the first half of year financials
• We will start ordering more street materials over the
March/April timeframe and are working on several DIMP
projects (outlined in the Gas Company report) that will
drive expenses in our Government and Gas Company funds
• The research we are doing related to overall Paving Costs
and Building Asset costs should be finalized in the next
month. This will give us a clearer picture on the dollars we
will need to accumulate and spend out of the government
fund to get back to a healthy asset position over time.
Financial Readout (3)
• Police Department expense has the most attention right now with City
Manager and Finance Director. Additional activities like the bomb
threats and continued bridge accidents have driven OT and some
additional expense to that Department. We do monitor weekly and
are working on ways to help minimize overall spend in our
Government fund
• We are also very concerned about the deterioration of the roads and
will address the anticipated costing as we communicate our findings
and requirements based on the Road Paving/Health research. The
weather has been particularly abusive to our roads this year (about 4
months of continuous moisture), which is something we have to
address
• Overall account balances continue to grow and our trend is stronger on
cash position than 2 years ago. Building some cash reserves will allow
us to execute on the needed work for airport maintenance, road
maintenance and other asset/infrastructure maintenance needs that
continue to arise.
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